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Pavement clock for passers by at Windsor, Berkshire.

L/S tower of Windsor Castle, pan down to M/S street scene. M/S street scene, car in foreground. M/S man looking in jeweller's window. Jeweller Mr. C. D. Dyson walks out of door holding clock, pan with him as he starts to fit clock in hole in pavement. M/S onlookers. C/U Dyson's hands plugging in leads. C/U girls looking on. M/S clock being lowered into hole. Two women look at time as they pass. C/U clock set in pavement (time is 12:20). Various shots pedestrians walking over clock. Top shot of clock as passers-by look at it.

Geoff Dyson – son of founder – and his wife (can't remember her name) were friends of my parents. The film (1950) was the year I was born. Geoff died of a heart attack. I remember he was tall and slim so that might well have been him in the film. I was born in Princess Christian nursing home in Windsor and went to St. Bernard's Convent, Slough. Being a shop "By appointment to ..." it used to be visited by the reigning monarch when at home and who occasionally, I was told, used to buy presents there for staff.

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